Ontario Liberal Party Leader Bonnie Crombie pledged on Monday that if elected, she would ensure every resident in the province has access to a family doctor within four years, employing a wartime effort to address the crisis.
Ontario Liberal Party Leader Bonnie Crombie promised on Monday that if elected premier, she would ensure that every resident in the province has access to a family doctor within four years.Ontario Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie speaks to reporters in Brampton, Ont. on Monday. She promised, if elected, she would ensure that every Ontarian has access to a family doctor within four years.
In July, the Ontario College of Family Physicians said 2.5 million people in Ontario don't have a family doctor. The Liberal primary care plan would cost $3.1 billion, an amount that Crombie said is roughly equivalent to the sum total of the $200 rebates that Ontario Premier Doug Ford has promised to give residents.3 million Ontarians at risk of losing family doctor to retirement, provincial Liberals say
"The money exists and we will put it to good use to ensure that every Ontarian has access to a family doctor."Hannah Jensen, spokesperson for Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones, said in an email on Monday that the provincial government has been working hard on the issue. Jensen said the government is already expanding the medical school system, "breaking down barriers for hundreds of internationally educated physicians through programs like Practice Ready Ontario, making historic investments to expand interprofessional primary care teams, connecting 330,000 more people to primary care, and expanding the Learn and Stay Grant to connect 1.36 million more people to primary care.
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